Political Ideologies provides an extensive collection of extracts from the texts of major intellectuals, politicians, and writers who represent some of the most important ideological traditions in modern politics. The first volume to provide such an extensive range of texts and to cover both established and newer political ideologies, it illustrates the complex evolution of ideological traditio…
Contents: 1. The founders 2. The global struggle 3. War and strategy 4. The hydrocarbon age 5. The battle for world mastery.
Contents: 1. Economics, management, politics and security 2. Regional and international 3. Miscellaneous
In this immensely important book, journalist Robert Lacey draws on years of access to every circle of Saudi society giving readers the fullest portrait yet of a land straddling the worlds of medievalism and modernity. Part 1 : Kingdom of good Part 2 : Kingdom at war Part 3 : Al-Qaeda comes home
In this succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright book--now revised and updated for the new century--Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the background, basic data, and issues at stake in China's crisis-ridden present and future. After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised and updated his classic introduction to the background of, the data about, and the issues at sta…
Corruption is a threat to democracy and economic development in many societies. It arises in the ways people pursue, use, and exchange wealth and power, and in the strength or weakness of the state, political, and social institutions that sustain and restrain those processes. Michael Johnston argues, give rise to four major syndromes of corruption: Influence markets, elite cartels, oligarchs an…
The contents of this book: - The inheritance - First things - Politics - 1971 - The new men - A national coalition
Classics of Modern Political Theory: Machiavelli to Mill brings together the complete texts or substantial selections from the masterpieces of modern political theory. The most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume includes well-known works by Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx, and significant contributions from Spinoza, Montesquieu, Hume, Adam Smith, Kant, Burke, Bentham, and…
This book contains: 1. The immediate aftermath of the disintegration of the Soviet empire in Europe and the Soviet Union itself 2. The convulsive collapse of the former Yugoslavia and the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo 3. The Gulf War against Iraq and its various sequels 4. The Maastrhict Treaty for the furthering of the Europen Union 5. The tensions in China between economic liberalisation and…
The years of 2000-2004 were presumably very challenging period in conducting 'the final stage' of my work on 'Rethinking the Indonesian Crisis'. Since August 2000 I conducted several in-depth interviews in Jakarta with key people who provided important information. Most of these in-depth interviews have greatly influenced this work, and con- sistently made me rethink and re-evaluate the Indones…